How a 3 cm glass sphere could help understand space weather
UCLA researchers reproduced the gravity that exists on or near stars and other planets inside of a 3 cm glass sphere.
How to shelter from a nuclear explosion
There is no good place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off. Anything too close is instantly vaporized, and radiation can pose a serious health threat even at a distance.
Astronomers capture radio signal from distant galaxy
How do stars form in distant galaxies?
Astronomers have long been trying to answer this question by detecting radio signals emitted by nearby galaxies.
However, these...
How do rocky planets really form?
Scientists unveil a unified theory for rocky planet formation.
New study reveals a star’s unexpected survival
As the star is shredded, its remnants are transformed into a stream of debris that rains back down onto the black hole to form a very hot, very bright disk of material swirling around the black hole, called an accretion disc.
Scientists discover system’s second earth-size planet
Scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface.
Scientists find matter flung out of our Milky Way galaxy
Astronomers have used an intense burst of radio waves originating from a nearby galaxy to inspect the halo of gas cocooning our own Milky Way galaxy.
Ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in time, finds NASA study
In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze of light.
Why nuclear fusion is so exciting?
The Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California last week achieved fusion with a net energy gain, the U.S. Department of Energy reported on Thursday.
A trip to the sun could reveal “ultralight” dark matter if it exists
Sending an atomic clock onboard a spacecraft to fly close to the sun might be the trick to uncovering the nature of dark matter,...